This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … be converging among themselves, while growth experiences among other regions have been highly heterogeneous. …

Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an …

This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … be converging among themselves, while growth experiences among other regions have been highly heterogeneous. …

This paper examines the effect of banking on economic growth in modern Russia. To overcome simultaneity and selection … uncorrelated with 15 predictors of future growth, including pre-banking income, education, anti-market sentiment, institutional …. Additional results indicate that spetsbanks increased growth in regions in which they were less connected to government and were …

This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by … showing that, contrary to the views of some political commentators, growth is highly important for the popularity of president … Putin. Furthermore, regular models of growth are relevant to Russia and other transition countries over the last two decades …